February 5, 1998

1) ANNOUNCEMENTS

2) PRECEPTS

3) DEFINING SEX AND GENDER

Terms: Sex, Sex Category, Sexuality, Gender

4) AGNES AND ROUTINE ACCOMPLISHMENT

A discussion of Garfinkel's piece about Agnes

Who is Agnes?

What about the methodology or theory used in this study? What is it?

What is ethnomethodology?

What do we learn about sex and gender through Agnes' story?

What did she do to manage?

5) ESSENTIAL FEMALENESS AND DOING GENDER

Chicken walk

6) SOCIAL CHANGE, THE INDIVIDUAL VERSUS SOCIAL STRUCTURES - SELF REFLECTION, CONSCIOUS ACTION.

Can we avoid doing gender? A Thought and Action Challenge - eliminating gender. How can we meet the accountability challenges?